[TYPO3-dev] TYPO3 4.2 Alpha3: Pagetree filter

[Steffen Kamper]

"Dmitry Dulepov [typo3]" <dmitry at typo3.org> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
news:mailman.1.1200680386.27721.typo3-dev at lists.netfielders.de...
> Hi!
>
> ben van 't ende [netcreators] wrote:
>> I was glad to see the filter box looks so nice now, but I have some 
>> doubts about
>> the functionality. When the page tree is collapsed it does not work, also 
>> not
>> for parts of the collapsed tree. It sounds most logical to me that parts 
>> expand
>> when entered in the filter box. This ofcourse poses a problem when you 
>> just
>> enter one character. Patrick suggests to only activate the ajax search 
>> when
>> entered at least three characters. There should at least be the 
>> possibility to
>> expand / collapse the pagetree as featured in pagetreetools.
>>
>> Any thoughts?
>
> I still regret that we decided not to use ExtJS in the core. It has all 
> these things built-in. Now we reinvent the whell with all these searches, 
> page tree dynamic loads, ajax forms, etc. We could just use ExtJS for it.
>
> Check, for example, trees:
> http://extjs.com/deploy/dev/examples/tree/two-trees.html
> http://extjs.com/deploy/dev/examples/tree/reorder.html
>
> -- 

i know, extJS is fantastic for building apps, there are a lot of widgets. 
And it works with prototype.
It has the best grids i've ever seen.
And it's really simple to build things up, it has an excellent API.

Cons: library is really "big" and the license model.

vg  Steffen